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Informix Server

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Secure the Wire Listener: Stop requiring clear text passwords

Currently, the only way to secure the wire listener is to put clear text passwords in the jsonListener.properties file. This is true both for the JDBC connection to the database and for the SSL keystore. There needs to be a way to keep those clear...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

When using onsmsync, the -t option should ONLY query Storage Manager for objects that fit criteria

It appears based on logs from storage manager that when the -t flag is used in onsmsync that the Storage Manager is queried for all objects residing in the sysutils database, and not just for those objects that are greater than the date time value...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Do not lock table when entering alter table menu in isql/dbaccess tools

After entering alter table menu and selecting the table , the table will lock in exclusive mode until the opertion finish. If this table is an online trade table , this behaviour is very dangerous.So it should not lock table until user commit the ...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add option to dbschema command to see views

Currently, you have to do a system table query to see existing views. Please add an option (possibly -v) to dbschema to display views.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Onclean to display shmem key and master daemon process id before removing them

Currently the onclean command will immediately locate the process id and shmem key and clean/kill it. Example :[informix@localhost ~]$ onclean -konclean: Cleaning up processes and resources for 'local_shm'...*** WARNING: This will terminate IBM In...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Working system-calls from sysadmin tasks with Informix for Windows

Automatic Backup Tasks started from within the sysadmin-scheduler don't work on windows systems. The same problem with every other system-call. This is a Windows-specific problem. On Linux systems this works as intended.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support of LVARCHAR fields in Forms (4GL)

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over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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